Afstan: What you won't see in the Canadian media...
...except, oddly enough, on the CBC website: the UN Security Council has passed unanimously a resolution that, amongst other things, endorses the work of NATO ISAF and the Operation Enduring Freedom coalition (almost no coverage in US or UK press either):
And what you can see in a video by a US Army sergeant.
Upperdate: Other news you are most unlikely to see in the Canadian, quagmire-memed, media:
“The Security Council,Update: What you do see from some Canadians.
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“Noting, in the context of a comprehensive approach, the synergies in the objectives of UNAMA [United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan] and of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), and stressing the need for continued cooperation and coordination, taking due account of their respective designated responsibilities,
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“25. Calls upon the Afghan Government, with the assistance of the international community, including the International Security Assistance Force and Operation Enduring Freedom coalition, in accordance with their respective designated responsibilities as they evolve, to continue to address the threat to the security and stability of Afghanistan posed by the Taliban, Al-Qaida, other extremist groups and criminal activities, welcomes the completion of ISAF’s expansion throughout Afghanistan and calls upon all parties to uphold international humanitarian and human rights law and to ensure the protection of civilian life...
And what you can see in a video by a US Army sergeant.
Upperdate: Other news you are most unlikely to see in the Canadian, quagmire-memed, media:
"Australian special forces likely to head to Afghanistan"But then, I guess, Diggers and Polacks (irony alert) are just infra dig.
"First group of Polish troops leaves for mission in Afghanistan"
1 Comments:
well how about that . . Canada, at the behest of the UN, working with a mutilateral team of freedom loving nations, helping to establish basic human rights in a country devastated by war and a politically backward, totalitarian, brutal, mass murdering anti-human rights regime.
And the NDP & the Liberals want us to pull out and run away.
I always thought they supported the UN, were for basic human rights.
I guess I was wrong.
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